Pen and pencil clip



Sept. 2 1924. 1,507,485

E. E. JENKINS PEN AND FENG IIIIII Patented Sept. 2, 1924.

intrigas EDWARD E. JENKINS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

PEN AND PENCIL CLIP.

Application filed November 21, 1923i.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD E. JENKINS,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented or discovered certain new and useful Im-v provements in Pen and Pencil Clips, of which the following is a specification, reference'being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to a clip for fountain pens or the like, and more particularly to that class of clips which'are adapted to attach a pen or pencil to a vest pocket or other portion of the garment of the user. The clips now most generally in use in connection with fountain pens, and which are adapted to attach the pen to the vest pocket of the user, are open to the objection that their `efliciency is liable to be destroyed if they are once bent outward too far, in that it is impracticable and nearly impossible to restore them to their original holding shapes. The present invention has for its object to avoid this objection by providing a pen or pencil clip having so much elasticity that it will be practically impossible to de'- stroy its efficiency by bending it outward from the pen casing or pencil to which it may be attached, as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a front view of a preferred form of the iinproved holder or clip, and Fig. 2 is a side view of the same attached to a fountain pen casing. Fig. 3 illustrates a slightly different form ofthe invention from that shown in Fig. 1, in operative position. Fig. 4 is a side view showing a modified fo-rm of the invention attached to a fountain pen, and Fig. 5 is a top view of the form of the invention shown in Fig. 4. l

Referring to the drawing, 12 denotes the body of the spring clip and which body consists of a flat volute coil lof spring wire 12, preferably of elongated or oval form as shown more clearly in Fig. 1, but which may be of circular volute or spiral form as shown in Fig. 3. n

From the center of the coil 12, and preferably integral therewith, extends an attaching member which has la short shank portion 13 from which extends upward a thin flattened portion 14. This form of the inven- Seral No. 676,010.

tion is adapted for attachment toa fountain pen cap as shown in Fig. 2, the attaching i vortion 14 extending betweenv a. sleeve 15 within the ca 16, and the `said cap, this mode of attacliD now in use with many fountain pens. Also integral with the coil 12 is portion 18, or the like, of the user, as shown in Fig. 3; thelower end of said spring arm or member17 being preferably turned outward or rounded to facilitate the attachment ofthe pen to the garment of the user. y

Instead of being provided with the holding member 14 a spring-gripping member, as 19, may be soldered or riveted directly to the spring body part 12, said gripping member being adapted to engage the outside of a puntain pen holder, as 20, as shown in From the foregoing it will be understood that the flat volute coil 12which forms the body of the clip will have suoli great elasticity that it will be practically impossible to injure or destroy the gripping capacity of the clip by bending the holding arm or the garment vof member 17 outward, the very considerable length of spring wire in the flat coil afford,- ing such great elasticity that the clip will strongly grip the garment to which it may be attached, so as to securely hold the pen or pencil provided with the improved clip in place, while affording such a construction that it will be practically impossible to destroy the gripping capacity` of the clip by pulling the gripping member 17 outward.

Having thusl described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A pen or pencil clip comprising a flat volute coil or spring wire having an integral extension affording a gripping member, said wire coil being provided with means for attaching the same to a pen or pencil.

2. A elongated or oval volute coil of spring wire having an integral extension affording a gripping member, said wire coil being provided with means for attaching the same to a pen or pencil.

y 3. A volute coil of springwire having an integral extension raffording a gripping member, said ment beingthe same as thatl aspring arm or .member 17 adapted to grip against a pocket pen orv pencil clip comprising a flat,

pen or pencil clip comprising a flat Wire coil having, extending :from its centra-1 gripping member, said Wire coil having, exportion7 an integral flattened portion adapttending from its central portion7 an integral ed to be inserted in the cap of a fountain pen lla-ttened portion adapted to be inserted in 10 between such cap and a sleeve therein. the cap oi a fountain pen between such cap 4. A pen or pencil 'clip comprising a flat, ande :sleeve therein. lelongated or oval volute coil of spring Wire In testimony Whereof 'a'HiX inv signature.` having an integral extension affording a EDVARD E. JNKINS.` 

